waift
English
Noun
waift (plural waifts)
- Obsolete form of waif.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Then it is by name
Proteus , that hath ordayn'd my sonne to die ;
For that a waift , the which by fortune came
Upon your seas , he claym'd as propertie
References
- “waift”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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